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back-rope
back-rope n.
Brit. 
/ˈbakrəʊp/
, /ˈbakrəʊp/U.S. /ˈbækˌroʊp/
(of a horse) = backband n.; Nautical, a rope leading inboard from the martingale; see also quot. 1860 for back-pressure n./ˈbækˌroʊp/ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > backband
ridgewortha1300
rigtowc1310
ridge ropea1333
rigband1408
ridge-band1418
rigwithy1419
rigwiddie1513
backband?1523
rigwithe1570
back-rope1711
rig-ropea1728
ridger1733
ridge chain1757
straddle-band1901
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes securing bowsprit or jib-boom
martingale1794
back-rope1840
gaub-line1841
jib-guy1868
1711 in London Gaz. No. 4868/4 A white Spot on the middle of his Back made by the chafing of a back Rope.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxv. 132 Tackle [was] got upon the martingale backrope.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 57 The cat is hooked, by means of the back-rope, to the ring of the anchor.
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as lemmas
- rope-muscled
- rope-over
- rope-rhetoric
- rope-ripe
- rope-shaped
- rope-sick
- rope-soled
- rope-spinner
- rope-swung
- rope-tide
- rope-walker
- round-rooted
- round-section
- round-seeded
- round-shapen
- round-shot-like
- round-shouldered
- round-shoulderedness
- round-sided
- round-skirted
- round-sole
- round-soled
- round-spectacled
- round-spun
- round-sterned